16-year-old gets life-saving transplant right before Thanksgiving

A life-saving kidney transplant has one 16-year-old Oklahoman doing better than ever. He suffered from Kidney disease since birth, and after three years on dialysis, the call came right before ...

Pastor and stranger linked by gospel song as miraculous kidney donation saves two lives

A shared love for the song "Sow Mercy" led to a remarkable kidney transplant story in North Carolina, in which two men ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Two reasons to be thankful. An unusual organ transplant story.

Dr. Eric Gibney, program director of the Piedmont Transplant Institute, called everything about Angela’s case “super unusual,” including two members of a family being able to donate organs to the same ...
The Tablet

A Second Chance at Life: St. John’s Administrator Seeks Living Kidney Donor

Christine Goodwin, assistant provost for institutional research at St. John’s University, shares a smile with the New York Mets mascot at Citi Field. (Photo: Christine Goodwin) JAMAICA — For the last ...
Case Western Reserve University

Transformative eye research expands donor pool for corneal transplant patients

Many eye banks won’t accept corneas from donors with diabetes, concerned they might be harder to prepare for transplant surgery or are more likely to fail. “We also found the severity of the donor’s ...
Medscape

First Report: Donor Kidney Reprogrammed to Universal Type O

The first successful human transplant of a kidney enzymatically converted from blood type A to universal type O may mark a pivotal shift in transplantation. In a study published in Nature Biomedical ...
Reuters

Health Rounds: Scientists change kidney blood type, a potential advance for transplant recipients

Oct 15 (Reuters) - Researchers have converted a blood type A kidney to a blood type O kidney and successfully transplanted it, they reported in Nature Biomedical Engineering, opens new tab, an advance ...
kcra.com

Former Jets All-Pro Nick Mangold seeks kidney donor, shares chronic illness diagnosis

Former New York Jets All-Pro center Nick Mangold said Tuesday he has been battling chronic kidney disease for nearly 19 years and is undergoing dialysis.Mangold addressed his health situation in a ...
KWTX

Former New York Jets center Nick Mangold says he needs a kidney transplant, seeks donor

(AP) - Former New York Jets center Nick Mangold, a two-time All-Pro who remains one of the most popular players in the team’s history, said on social media on Tuesday that he has kidney disease and ...
USA Today

Nick Mangold opens up about kidney disease and transplant donor

Nick Mangold is a beloved former New York Jets center who spent all 11 years with Gang Green and made the Pro Bowl in seven of him. And now, he's making an impassioned plea to the world: He's in need ...
Us Weekly

Former New York Jets Star Nick Mangold Reveals He Needs Kidney Transplant: ’Thought I Would Have More Time’

Former New York Jets center Nick Mangold revealed he needs a kidney transplant – and he’s asking for the public’s help. “This isn’t an easy message to share, but I want to be open about what’s been ...